From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 4 14:44:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0285E37B403 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:44:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bean.overtone.org ([24.249.254.100]) by femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010904214409.BIOU15592.femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com@bean.overtone.org>; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:44:09 -0700 Received: by bean.overtone.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9D12F5B4D9; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:43:44 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:43:43 +0000 From: Kevin Way To: Joseph Mallett Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <20010904214343.B77906@bean.overtone.org> References: <00000925020cf507d1@[192.168.1.4]> <20010904161534.A97071@NewGold.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010904161534.A97071@NewGold.NET>; from jmallett@NewGold.NET on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 04:15:34PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If you're really lazy and want to be able to do: > telnet smtp://localhost > I suggest you look into this relatively new invention called > '/etc/services' and read some manual pages. You'll find you can do > something quite similar, and much saner. I'm quite sure that Mr. Sinz wasn't suggesting that telnet smtp://localhost should do something useful. Nor do I consider his idea "lazy". I do think that he was suggesting, and I concur, that there's no logical reason that networked file access should be treated differently by user applications than local file access. I strongly suggest you read his post again, and think about how nice it is for a moment that you can mount CODA, 9660, NFS, FFS, UFS, FAT, NTFS, SMBFS, etc and have user-level programs access their data in exactly the same manner. This is not an LSD-induced 'turn freebsd into windows' idea, it's a very simple extension of ideas that FreeBSD already has in place. Kevin Way To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message